A left-profile ink portrait of a man wearing a flat cap or beret — the cap's geometry described with angular bold marks, the brim extending to the left and the crown rising in a rounded-rectangular shape above. The face below is in strict left profile: a broad, slightly upturned nose, a jowl at the jaw, the mouth with the lips briefly stated. The ink is applied very quickly — perhaps the fastest of any portrait in the series — with gestural, searching strokes that build the profile in a rapid accumulation of marks rather than a single sustained line. Faint hatching at the neck and shoulder area gives the figure some spatial grounding.
The flat cap is the portrait's dominant formal element and its most socially specific detail. Where Work 1477's breast pocket placed its subject in the social world of working life, the flat cap here does the same — this is a working-class or outdoors-type figure, the cap a period accessory that places the portrait in the mid-twentieth century with particular social specificity. The cap's geometry — its flat brim and rounded crown — creates a strong horizontal and curved element at the top of the composition that the face below serves as a vertical counterpoint.
The gestural, rapid quality of the ink — multiple passes at the profile line, searching strokes at the brim and crown — gives this portrait more of the quality of a sketch than any of the more sustained ink portraits in the series. The speed reads as a response to the subject's character: this is not a sitter posing formally but a person observed and caught quickly, the cap and the profile all that was needed to fix them on the page. Among the clothed male portraits, this is the most casually drawn and the most character-specific.